Caroline Louise Miller composition & sound design

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Contemporary classical magazine I CARE IF YOU LISTEN reviewed SPOR festival and my latest work Vivarium. Check out the review here!

Vivarium premiered in May. It was performed by myself and Anna Jalving. Amplified, magnified pomegranates are dissected with hand tools, medical instruments, and fingers to explore a grotesque spectrum between the surgical and the orgiastic. Fruit, as an everyday substance of desire, consumption, and nourishment, opens a window into lives of matter that are animated by human experimentation, obsession, and sensuality.

How to Survive a 100-hour Workweek

This musical theater work premiered at Stanford and UCSD in October 2016. It explores bodily and vocal relationships to labor, institutional discipline, and glitch in late capitalism. Laborers (played by Hillary Jean Young, Ashley Cutright, and Jonathan Nussman) struggle to stay afloat amidst snippets of inspirational advice from iconic voices and lifestyle video bloggers. A fourth laborer (played by Constantin Basica) operates a wooden crank that feeds advice through the speakers at different speeds. The ending chorus, To Choke, unfolds in a surreal soundscape composed of church organ, arctic seals, a Sibelius symphony, a marching band playing Christmas hymns, and charcoal crackling.

New electro-acoustic work in progress

I've spent much of this summer in the studio, stitching together an electroacoustic work influenced by post-dubstep, glitch, and electro-house music. I recorded many of the singing and clapping samples in an enclosed space of smooth concrete, on Laguna Mountain. I can't wait to share it.